I happened to run across this soon-to-be published book at Amazon, My Father's Paradise: A Son's Search for his Jewish Past in Kurdish Iraq, by Ariel Sabar. The reason I am anticipating the publication of this book is because I know the father in the book. Yona Sabar was one of my Hebrew professors at UCLA. He was a member of my Ph.D. committee. He is one of the kindest and most godly men I have ever met.
He is also one of a very few native speakers of Aramaic that I have met. I knew that he had fled from Kurdistan in Iraq as a young person and settled in Israel before coming to the US. I’m looking forward to reading the book.
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And I look forward to your reflections on the book. :)
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